Digital Product Passport for luxury goods

No. There is no passport act for watches, jewellery or leather goods. None of them is in the first working plan under the Ecodesign Regulation. Apparel comes closest to a fixed direction. The textiles act carries an indicative year of 2027 in the working plan, and the passport requirements arrive with it. Other rules bind you today. They include the due diligence duties for gold and other metals. Since 19 July 2026 the ban on destroying unsold apparel and footwear applies as well. A passport pays off even without an act. It makes authenticity verifiable in a scan and keeps resale value through its history. And it keeps the owner in touch with you.

Ready-to-wear falls under the textiles work, so an act will reach it. Footwear is not in it. The Commission judged its impacts lower than the priority groups. It commissioned a study, due to conclude at the end of 2027. Handbags, watches and jewellery are in no product group at all. If you sell across all four lines, you will switch the categories on at different times. So build the passport structure once for every line. In Transpareo you keep all lines on one platform.

For the minerals rules, the importer is the addressee. The duty falls on the Union importer whose annual volumes exceed the thresholds. A future passport act will follow the familiar pattern. Responsible is whoever places the product on the EU market. In both cases the work lies in the contract, since the data sits upstream. Settle the data clauses in the purchasing contract before you need them. With a supplier request in Transpareo your suppliers then enter the details themselves.

No. A passport needs a persistent unique product identifier. The regulation prescribes no particular numbering scheme. Many maisons already carry an internal reference and a serial number, and those are enough. If you have GTINs, Transpareo turns them into a GS1 Digital Link that retail systems resolve as well. Without one, Transpareo issues a unique identifier of its own. Either way the QR code leads to the passport, engraved, printed or on the guarantee card.

In this industry, per item. Which level applies is for the act of each product group to set. A model passport tells a buyer what a reference is. Only an item passport carries this object’s serial number, its manufacturing date and its service history. Transpareo keeps passports per model, batch or item. Item level costs you nothing structurally. It is the same template with serial numbers underneath.

Not on its own. A counterfeiter can print your QR code onto a copy. A passport makes the genuine record verifiable. Each publication is signed. So a reader sees that this record was issued by you, and every earlier version stays retrievable. Authentication becomes a check against a record you keep. That is what an auction house or a resale platform needs. Anyone verifies the signature with the Transpareo Time Machine.

Since 19 July 2026 large companies may no longer destroy unsold apparel, clothing accessories and footwear. Medium-sized companies follow on 19 July 2030, and micro and small companies are exempt. On top comes the duty to disclose the number and weight of unsold goods discarded, every year. Some houses have protected their price positioning by destroying stock. For them this is the most important rule on this page. It needs a data trail long before it needs a passport.

Since 18 September 2026 cattle leather no longer falls under the Deforestation Regulation. A delegated regulation deleted raw, tanned and further-prepared cattle hides and leather from its list. Wooden jewellery caskets stay covered. The question of where the hide came from remains. Customers and retailers ask it, and the answer comes from your tannery contracts. In Transpareo the leather component keeps its origin and its evidence.

Customer data may go into the passport only with explicit consent. So think carefully before the passport carries a name. In Transpareo visibility is a property of every data field. A service history can be public while the owner-facing part stays behind logged access. You record a change of owner as an event that does not appear publicly. Personal fields can be erased, and the rest of the passport still verifies. The safest pattern keeps the object’s history in the passport and the person in your client system. More on the mechanics in disclosure does not cost you the signature.

No act sets a period for these categories yet. Once one does, the passport stays available even after an insolvency. The object outlives the question anyway. A watch changes hands three times in forty years. If the passport is gone at the second sale, it is worthless. So what matters is what your provider does after a cancellation. With Transpareo, published passports stay reachable at a permanent address. Once registered in the EU registry, they go into a ten-year archive. Our provider checklist names more questions worth asking any provider.